New Funding Opportunities for Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans

William T. Riley, Ph.D., Associate Director of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Over the past year, since we published an essay in Nature Human Behaviour on “NIH policies on experimental studies with humans,” NIH has engaged in a discussion with the basic science community to find ways to meet our shared obligations to study participants and taxpayers, while respecting the unique goals and outcomes of basic science.  While we are still in the midst of that conversation, we are pleased to announce real progress in the form of new funding opportunity announcements for Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans. Since October 2014, the NIH defines a clinical trial as “a research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes.” (NOT-OD-15-015).  We appreciate that not all studies meeting this NIH definition of a “clinical trial” are “clinical” in nature.  Some studies involve preventive interventions with healthy individuals or interventions with patients in settings other than the healthcare system.  Other studies constitute basic research, defined as the “systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in mind....
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